Dutch oven

noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A large cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid, especially one made of metal. US

    "I heard the most uncommon and unaccountable noise that can be imagined. It was, in fact, occasioned by the clattering of tin pattypans and a Dutch oven against the sides of the panniers."

  2. 2
    an oven consisting of a metal box for cooking in front of a fire wordnet
  3. 3
    A portable oven consisting of a metal box, with shelves, placed before an open fire.
  4. 4
    iron or earthenware cooking pot; used for stews wordnet
  5. 5
    A protective cover for electrical contacts on a railway coupler, particularly but not exclusively used on the London Underground.
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  1. 6
    The situation where a person breaks wind under the bedcovers, sometimes pulling them over a bedmate's head as a prank. slang

    "Dutch Oven = Farting in bed & then lifting the blankets."

  2. 7
    A room or vehicle full of marijuana smoke.
  3. 8
    The very end of a Dutch Masters cigar that has been rerolled with marijuana. slang
  4. 9
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Dutch, oven.
Verb
  1. 1
    To break wind beneath one's bedcovers or some other enclosed space. slang

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Etymology

Etymology 1

From Dutch (“makeshift, substitutional, replacement, ersatz”) + oven. See Dutch for more information on the now obsolete sense that the term is derived from. The cigar sense is said to originate in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Etymology 2

From Dutch (“makeshift, substitutional, replacement, ersatz”) + oven. See Dutch for more information on the now obsolete sense that the term is derived from. The cigar sense is said to originate in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

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